Lower East Side Jewish Market 1900 & LES Ghetto 1909

[Howard Brown]

This view is looking east at Hester Street from about Essex to the corner of Norfolk Street. This block no longer exists.

[Howard Brown]

[Howard Brown]

This is the location of the 1909 photo.....On Rivington Street looking down Orchard Street....one mile from the Hotel Carrie Brown was murdered in back in 1891.

There's an air conditioner in the window where a woman was leaning out back in 1909.

[Gary Barnett]

These Shorpy photos are amazing, How.

[Howard Brown]

They sure are, Gary.

The first one seems like it's breathing...very vibrant photo.

[Gary Barnett]

They sure are, Gary.

The first one seems like it's breathing...very vibrant photo.

Truly amazing detail. Is that a tooth, complete with roots, hanging outside the building in the right foreground? A dentist’s perhaps?

[Howard Brown]

Yes, it is Gary...one of Robert's molars...